Happy June! Everyone seems to either be wrapping up the school year or finishing up projects at work ahead of trips to the beach – or whatever it is that humans do when it gets this warm out. Our team’s been busy too; in case you missed it, we launched a new Glitch homepage, created new starter apps to celebrate Apple’s expanding support for progressive web apps and open VR/XR, and made huge progress in letting the Glitch community tap into all of Fastly’s features for supercharging your apps – we’ll be sharing more about this very soon!

While you wait, why not keep scrolling to check out what the community created, shared and wrote about last month, yeah?

See you on glitch.com!
Jenn, Director of Community 👽

P.S. Recently, Mastodon had to fight off a huge wave of DDOS attacks, and we’re going to be hosting what I know will be a really interesting conversation about how Fastly teamed up with the Mastodon community to keep the fediverse running smoothly, called “Mitigating DDOS in the Fediverse with Mastodon” – it’s happening June 28 and is free to sign up. (Let your friends who run their own Mastodon instances know!)

On the blogs ✍️

In case you missed it on the Glitch Blog...

• Check out what you created last month in the May edition of Last Month on Glitch, featuring mythical creatures, time travel, a 3D incantation bowl from ancient Mesopotamia…you know, the usual Glitch fare.
• Sue blogged about our inability to define the real skill in being a software developer and raises the question for you all: what skills do software developers have beyond writing code?
• Jenn Turner had a brief chat with Stefan Bohacek about bots! By the way, she’s looking for more folks to talk to so nominate what creators you’d like to hear about - could even be you!

Here are some blog posts from the community that we loved!

• Raymond Camden used Glitch to test the Web Share API and shared his results, with directions on how to try it yourself!
• Rory Gianni used Glitch to design an infinite number of shirts with fruit on them. Now they just have to sew them all…
• John Mueller built a Midjourney-processing integration between Discord and Lightroom and shared a tutorial so you can make your own.
• Berlin-based studio, Invisible Room wrote about getting started on A-frame.
• Clive Thompson wrote about the worst computer bugs and how learning about them has shaped his own coding.

Have you written about your Glitch apps on a blog, a conference talk…anywhere! Let us know and we’ll feature it in the next newsletter!

On the forum 📣

Check out what the Glitch community is sharing and discussing:

• Fresh from The Gallery: @etsinger advocates for safer biking in Chicago, @pb.oliver.mcloughlin brings Chat-GPT into the Glitch editor, and @wh0 creates a bot that codes with you!
• Say hi and share what you’ve been working on in the latest Community Open thread!

The Glitch Community Forum is the best way to ask the community for help, share what you’re making, exchange friendly banter and get to know your fellow friendly Glitch creators. See you there! 😎

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